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Tails Wx and
Sherenk1: Saw this in the queue so I thought I'd give you a review. Article looks all good, I believe the "when?" tag can be overlooked as there is no date mentioned in the source. Could you bear to shorten the hook slightly? My suggestion is ... that after the 2023 Africa floods, relief efforts to help victims of the flooding disaster were disrupted by continuous heavy rainfall? I think it sounds a bit snappier. Schminnte (
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contribs)18:24, 4 May 2023 (UTC)reply
Thanks for the heads up
69.118.237.29. I would like to have some discussion on this before I fail this DYK. @
Quake1234: could you please comment on the merge rationale for this? Leaving a merge proposal open for less than an hour before closing does not seem very prudent to me. I would have at least expected it to remain open for some time, or for a courtesy ping to the DYK nomination. Actioning a merge with only one support (with no rationale) doesn't sit right with me. I would have considered a hatnote preferable, as the article was referenced well and could have existed fine in its own. @
Onegreatjoke,
Jim Michael 2,
Tails Wx, and
Sherenk1: pinging other involved users. Schminnte (
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Schminnte: What seemed to have happened was that their was originally this article and another article detailing some floods that killed over two hundred in south Kivu, DRC. The merger proposal seemed to come out of an opinion that these floods we're part of the same storm as the Rwanda-Uganda ones and thus could be merged. And with one support, Quake instantly merged the two articles together (though, they merged the rwanda-uganda article, which had some substantial words, and merged it into the south kivu flood article, which was a stub at the time). Once merged, the article became about these floods. But for some reason, Quake randomly just decided to change the article's scope from being about these floods to being about all floods in the entirety throughout the entirety of 2023. I don't know how to feel about this personally. The merging, name changing, and scope changing in the span of like two hours just gave me tonal whiplash.
Onegreatjoke (
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20:14, 6 May 2023 (UTC)reply
I'm going to exercise my best judgement here and suggest that this nomination needs another review, due to the split. This is nomination is quite the mess and does not even point to the correct article any more! @
Tails Wx,
Sherenk1, and
Blaylockjam10: ping now involved users. Schminnte (
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contribs)09:26, 19 May 2023 (UTC)reply
Sorry, yes. I will fail this one; maybe something with the split page could be done? I'm not sure, on second thought it's better just to be done with this nomination. Schminnte (
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contribs)21:25, 19 May 2023 (UTC)reply